Ashram Life in London -Golden Memories Sahaja Yoga in conversation with Graham, Gail & Felicity
SY GRAHAM: and then we would work on ourselves in the evening. You know. I can remember sessions of using the onions. You know the burnt onions and people working with candles. And it was very, very intense, you know, but fantastic, actually. And so we were all getting deeper and deeper into the Sahaja Yoga.
SY GRAHAM: but on one occasion was very interesting, that just to show how natural humanity was, she decided we wanted to have an Ajwan session, so we found all these sheets, and with Mother, we were sitting on the floor in the front room, all of us
Sahaja Yoga Golden Memories: it is, it is said that after an Ajwan treatment, you don't go outside bareheaded, like cover your head, or something.
SY GRAHAM: That's right, that's right. We got the sort of instructions that you should wrap up and not go out, you know, and I think it was really working on our Vishuddhis, you know. And that sort of thing.
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Felicity Payment: I mean, there's nothing like living in an ashram, for you're on the front line. So you're you're very challenged. Personally, you have to like Jeremy was saying. I wanted to pick up on that, Jeremy was saying that you know when you come into Sahaj Yoga you,... you know I was the same very naive, idealistic. Oh, all that's behind me now. Life is going to be beautiful and everything. But actually, that's not how your spiritual growth works. And you do get put back into situations that you'd struggled with, you know, prior to self realization, that had been challenging for you for mother to show you that you are now different. And you can cope with that situation now in a different way. And you kind of go. Oh. Okay, it's, you know, because you get this dread or this fear comes up. Oh, I've been through that, you know. I don't want to go through that again, but actually, as a Yogi, with your realization it's going to be different. So that we, you learn not to be so afraid of new challenges or new situations, and when you're in an ashram you do get challenged on that. You've got all these different personalities who've come from different ideas, different conditionings, different things. They think house should be, and you have to. In that situation, you know mother is is putting you through that so that you will grow. I think you have your fastest, deepest growth when you're in Ashrams or school.
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Felicity Payment: I mean, it sounds so simple now. But she talked about not having plastic toys, about having wooden toys, having cotton clothes, you know, because at that time in the culture ... the culture was like we went. I would go into the clothes shops, and you find one cotton dress. Everything else was plastic. No, no, it was polyester, and mother said no, they must be in natural fibers that breathe. And so, I would have to go to each department store to buy one dress, you know. So she had more than one dress, and then mother said to us, Just keep buying them. Just keep buying them, and then they will come in, and people will. You know, you will change the consciousness, and they will start supplying more. And that's what happened, you know. So a few years later you would go, and you'd see that there was a lot more but it took time for that to happen.